Plate-metal column



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No. 385,168. Patented July 1o, 188A.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @erica FRANK MESKER AND HENRY F.EDVVARDS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

PLATE-METAL. COLUMN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 385,768, dated July 10, 1888.

Application led February 17, 1888.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRANK MESKER and HENRY F. EDWARDS, of St. Louis, Missouri, havejointly made a new and useful Improvenient in Plate-Metal Columns, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The improvement relates to that class of platenietal columns which is used in archi tectural work-such as building-fronts-and composed mainly of plates, or plates and angle-irons riveted together.

The improvement consists in the special shape and combination of the parts composing the column,substantially as is herein described and claimed, and as illustrated in the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in Which- Figure l is a rear elevation of the improved column as before being ornamented; Fig. 2, a Side elevation of the same; Fig. 3, a vertical section of the column ornamented, Fig. 4, a View in perspective, from its front, of theornamented column; Fig. 5, a vertical section, upon an enlarged scale, showing in detached parts the front portion of the ornamented column; Fig. 6, a horizontal section, upon an enlarged scale, on the line 6 6 of Fig. 2; and Fig. 7 is a similar horizontal section illustrating a modiiication ofthe construction in two non-essential respects, the column front being recessed and the plate-anges being turned outward, and the column sides at' the back of the column having no iiange.

Thesameletters of reference denote the same parts.

The improved unornamented column is composed mainly of three plates, A A and B. The metallic plates A A together form the Serial No. 264,365. (No model.)

front and sides of the column, and the Wooden plate B constitutes the back of the column. Each plate A, after being extended from the back to the front of the column to form the...

side a thereof, is turned toward the center of the column front, forming the part a. These parts a a', at their opposing edges, are provided with anges c2, which are riveted to gether. The iianges a2 may be turned inwardly, as shown in Fig. 6, or outwardly, as shown in Fig. 7, and the parts a a may be shaped to form a dat column frontorapaneled column front, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7, respectively.

As shown in Figs. 3, 6, the plates A A, at the rear of the column, may be provided with an in wardly-turned tlange, a?, and the fasten' ings Z), for securing the plate' B, may pass through the flanges a3 as into the plate B, or the anges a3 a may be omitted and the plate B be secured as shown in Fig. 7.

Ornamental portions G D E may be applied to the column, substantially as shown in Figs. 3, 4, 5.

We claim- The combination of the plates A A and B, said plates A A, respectively, being extended to a side and half ot' the front of the column and being riveted together, as described, and said Wooden plate B being fastened. between the plates A A at the rear of the column, sub stantially as described.

Vitness our hands.

FRANK MESKER. HENRY F. EDWARDS. Witnesses:

B. T. MEsKER, C. D. MOODY. 

